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The Declared and Actual Priorities of Regional and Local Authorities: How to Identify and Compare
The paper analyzes the approaches which could allow identifying, comparing and explaining a correspondence (or discrepancy) between the declared priorities of the socio-economic policies carried out by regional or municipal authorities (for example, strategic plans) and actual one (for example, those reflecting how public funds are handled). We tested such approaches for several city districts of the North-West areas of Russia through decomposing the project documents and using tools of budget analysis to show that representation and comparison of such declared and actual priorities in a formal manner is principally realizable.
Zhikharevich B. S. zhikh@leontief.ru
Rusetskaya O. V. olga@leontief.spb.su
Keywords: priority principles of federalism diagnostics fiscal policy strategic planning budget expenditures municipality region
Current trends of municipal budgeting
We validate our approaches to how subsidies aimed at budgetary equalization should be allocated. For this purpose we present our experimental calculations on the base of the economic-mathematical model. Such calculations made for the Novosibirsk Oblast allowed us to compare the existing method of governmental support with ours
Lavrovsky B. L. torroo@gmail.com
Keywords: municipality criterion of maximization of the minimal development municipality
Anti-recessionary measures of municipalities
The paper describes basic features of the economic crisis and what impacts the crisis has upon municipalities. To overcome the crisis, the transition to the new domestic economy based on principles of thrift, rational consumption, new economic thinking, introduction of innovations and higher efficiency of labor is considered inevitable. The authors show what local governments should undertake now to ensure economic growth in the post-crisis time.
Keywords: municipality economy crisis crisis post-crisis growth management methods
